Daily Firewall Report - 2026-03-09

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This report covers firewall activity across all agentic workflows that ran with firewall enabled over the past 7 days (data available: March 8–9, 2026). A total of 14 completed workflow runs were analyzed across 13 distinct workflows, collectively generating 880 network requests — of which 511 were blocked (58% block rate). The dominant blocked traffic category is internal/unresolved destinations (-:-), accounting for 508 of 511 blocks, with only 3 blocks attributed to named external domains.

Key Metrics

Metric	Value
🔥 Workflow runs analyzed	14
📡 Total network requests	880
✅ Allowed requests	369
🚫 Blocked requests	511
📊 Block rate	58.1%
🌐 Unique blocked domains	3

Note on block rate: The high block rate (58.1%) is primarily driven by -:- entries (508 blocks), which represent internal/unresolved network destinations (Docker system traffic, health checks, DNS failures). These are not meaningful security blocks — they are infrastructure-level noise from the squid proxy firewall. When excluding -:-, the actual meaningful block rate is 0.3% (3 external blocks out of 880 total requests).

📈 Firewall Activity Trends

Request Patterns by Workflow

The heaviest network users were Copilot Session Insights (212 requests), Documentation Unbloat (122 requests), and Terminal Stylist (103 requests). Claude-based workflows (Anthropic API) and Codex-based workflows (OpenAI API) show higher absolute block counts due to longer run times and more agentic iterations.

Top Blocked Domains

The vast majority of blocks (99.4%) are the -:- system entries. Only Changeset Generator attempted to reach real external domains (ab.chatgpt.com, github.com) that were not allowlisted.

Top Blocked Domains

Domain	Blocks	Category	Workflows Affected
-:- (internal/unresolved)	508	System/Infrastructure	All 14 runs
ab.chatgpt.com:443	2	AI Service	Changeset Generator
github.com:443	1	Development	Changeset Generator

About -:- entries: These represent traffic with no resolvable hostname — typically Docker container internal networking, squid proxy health checks, or requests made to bare IP addresses. This is expected behavior and not a security concern.

View Detailed Request Patterns by Workflow

Copilot Session Insights (Run §22831150866)

Domain	Allowed	Blocked	Block Rate
api.anthropic.com:443	67	0	0%
files.pythonhosted.org:443	1	0	0%
github.com:443	7	0	0%
pypi.org:443	2	0	0%
raw.githubusercontent.com:443	1	0	0%
-:-	0	134	100%

• Total: 212 requests | 78 allowed | 134 blocked | 63.2% block rate

Documentation Unbloat (Run §22832843771)

Domain	Allowed	Blocked	Block Rate
api.anthropic.com:443	44	0	0%
raw.githubusercontent.com:443	1	0	0%
-:-	0	77	100%

• Total: 122 requests | 45 allowed | 77 blocked | 63.1% block rate

Claude Code User Documentation Review (Run §22831361149)

Domain	Allowed	Blocked	Block Rate
api.anthropic.com:443	21	0	0%
raw.githubusercontent.com:443	1	0	0%
-:-	0	77	100%

• Total: 99 requests | 22 allowed | 77 blocked | 77.8% block rate

Terminal Stylist (Run §22831217202)

Domain	Allowed	Blocked	Block Rate
api.githubcopilot.com:443	37	0	0%
-:-	0	66	100%

• Total: 103 requests | 37 allowed | 66 blocked | 64.1% block rate

Chroma Issue Indexer (Run §22833414792)

Domain	Allowed	Blocked	Block Rate
api.githubcopilot.com:443	56	0	0%
-:-	0	38	100%

• Total: 94 requests | 56 allowed | 38 blocked | 40.4% block rate

Instructions Janitor (Run §22832711987)

Domain	Allowed	Blocked	Block Rate
api.anthropic.com:443	33	0	0%
raw.githubusercontent.com:443	1	0	0%
-:-	0	29	100%

• Total: 63 requests | 34 allowed | 29 blocked | 46.0% block rate

Developer Documentation Consolidator (Run §22832779180)

Domain	Allowed	Blocked	Block Rate
api.anthropic.com:443	19	0	0%
raw.githubusercontent.com:443	1	0	0%
-:-	0	27	100%

• Total: 47 requests | 20 allowed | 27 blocked | 57.4% block rate

Daily Compiler Quality Check (Run §22833213331)

Domain	Allowed	Blocked	Block Rate
api.githubcopilot.com:443	17	0	0%
-:-	0	21	100%

• Total: 38 requests | 17 allowed | 21 blocked | 55.3% block rate

Changeset Generator (Run §22832373736)

Domain	Allowed	Blocked	Block Rate
api.openai.com:443	14	0	0%
ab.chatgpt.com:443	0	2	100%
github.com:443	0	1	100%
-:-	0	14	100%

• Total: 31 requests | 14 allowed | 17 blocked | 54.8% block rate
• ⚠️ Notable: ab.chatgpt.com (OpenAI A/B testing domain) and github.com were blocked — Codex agent attempted to reach these without them being in the allowlist.

Agent Container Smoke Test — Mar 8 (Run §22832373731)

• Total: 18 requests | 11 allowed | 7 blocked (38.9% block rate)

Agent Container Smoke Test — Mar 9 (Run §22833950472)

• Total: 16 requests | 10 allowed | 6 blocked (37.5% block rate)

Auto-Triage Issues (Run §22833883347)

• Total: 19 requests | 13 allowed | 6 blocked (31.6% block rate)

Smoke Codex (Run §22832373726)

• Total: 9 requests | 6 allowed | 3 blocked (33.3% block rate)

AI Moderator (Run §22831267198)

• Total: 9 requests | 6 allowed | 3 blocked (33.3% block rate)

View Complete Blocked Domains List (Alphabetical)

Domain	Total Blocks	Category	Workflows
-:-	508	System/Infrastructure	All 14 runs
ab.chatgpt.com:443	2	AI Service (OpenAI A/B)	Changeset Generator
github.com:443	1	Development	Changeset Generator

Security Recommendations

1. -:- entries are infrastructure noise — The 508 blocks with no hostname represent Docker/squid internal traffic and do not indicate actual security issues. No action required.

2. ab.chatgpt.com:443 blocked in Changeset Generator — The OpenAI Codex agent attempted to connect to OpenAI's A/B testing domain (ab.chatgpt.com). This is a subdomain used by OpenAI clients for telemetry/routing. If blocking causes issues, consider adding it to the allowlist for Codex-based workflows.

3. github.com:443 blocked in Changeset Generator — The Codex agent attempted direct HTTPS access to github.com (port 443). Since GitHub API access should go through the GitHub MCP server, this direct attempt was correctly blocked. No action needed.

4. All AI provider APIs are correctly allowlisted:

   • api.githubcopilot.com ✅ (Copilot workflows)
   • api.anthropic.com ✅ (Claude workflows)
   • api.openai.com ✅ (Codex/GPT workflows)
   • raw.githubusercontent.com, pypi.org, files.pythonhosted.org, github.com ✅ (as needed per workflow)

5. Smoke Gemini failed (run §22833928466) — No firewall data available due to workflow failure. Investigate separately.

References:

• §22831150866 — Copilot Session Insights (highest request volume)
• §22832843771 — Documentation Unbloat (highest absolute blocked count)
• §22832373736 — Changeset Generator (only run with named external domain blocks)

AI generated by Daily Firewall Logs Collector and Reporter · history

• expires on Mar 12, 2026, 1:03 AM UTC

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